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Hello everyone, I was trying to rename a newlys created share for a customer site over the weekend. I was trying to give it MedTranBackup but that would only yield an error on the NT4 workstation about the network name not found and could not browse to it via network neighborhood. When I use MedTran everything was happy. I appear to have hit a limit in the length of the name. What is the

I'm trying to use SWAT on my Compaq Tru64 UNIX v5.1 machine running Samba 2.0.7. I'm prompted for a username/password. I read in the docs to enter root with root's passwd. This does not work. I get login failed, retry. I never get authenticated. Any ideas? Thanks, Paul Gregory UNIX & Oracle Database Admin GE Nuclear Energy paul.gregory@gnf.com

Hi Guys, Has anyone come across or heard tale of a problem whereby you have a Samba share where you can't see certain directories in the root of the share?

Hi All, I was checking the access rights and a problem (hence a question) appeared: Who can delete a file through Samba ? Suppose we have the following situation: drwxrwxrwx john finance directory -rw-r--r-- jack finance directory/file Under unix everyone can delete the file. Under Samba, the documentation says (due to the Windows sementic) you also need the write access to the